The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites Starting Oct. 30 [7d]
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- Is Liquid Metal Killing Our PCs? Scientific Analysis and a 2-Year Test [video] [7d]
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- BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox [7d]
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- U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering [7d]
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- Laptop Based on 6502 CPU [7d]
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- Call Center Jobs Are Declining, but 14,000 Calls Show Humans Still Outperform AI [7d]
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- $50k First Letters Prize Awarded for PHerc 343 [7d]
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- Southern ground hornbill gets 3D printed beak prostheses at Artis Zoo [7d]
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- What I Self-Host [7d]
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- Why are we even doing all this? [7d]
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- Lant – The Forgotten Resource [7d]
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- 2026 State of the Climate Report Shows a Planet Reaching Its Limits [7d]
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- New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing [7d]
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- "I'm a Lawyer." Said the White House Press Secretary. Florida Would Like a Word [7d]
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- Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr [7d]
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- SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful [7d]
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- We are entering a period of overlapping crises [7d]
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- How Postgres DELETE can actually scale [7d]
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- E Ink Launches Latest Version of Color EPaper Platform, E Ink Kaleido 4 [7d]
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- Voyage of the Paper Canoe: 2500 Miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, 1874-5 [7d]
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- Why We're Banning AI [7d]
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- Lombok Is Still Relevant in the Age of Java Records [7d]
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- Anthropic Update on Independent Evaluators [7d]
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- Fun Extending the C Preprocessor [7d]
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- More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke [7d]
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- An Israeli firm is sending zero-click spyware through online ads [7d]
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- Muse Spark Open, the Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date [7d]
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- Show HN: BlastLoop, a structure-first coding method for AI agents [7d]
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- Show HN: Sygal – Convert PDFs, scans and web pages to Markdown, locally [7d]
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- Jev Meets the Trolley Problem [7d]
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- Market selloff, rising rates test AI data centre deal boom [7d]
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- The technical actions needed to ensure the continuity of UTC [7d]
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- Krea 3 – Frontier Image Model 4× faster than Nano Banana Pro [7d]
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- Neural Networks Are Already Clean [7d]
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- Steam Client Is Now Faster Than Epic's New Vibe Coded Launcher [7d]
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- Show HN: Proa – a Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering [7d]
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- I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one [7d]
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- Gyroscopes Got So Small [video] [7d]
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- How to Train Your Robot [7d]
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- Recipes Are Moving from Maven Central to the Code Genome Project [7d]
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- Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran [7d]
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- Simons Foundation Launches $15M Effort to Help Mathematicians Navigate AI Era [7d]
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- Siri is so bad at everything [7d]
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- Prompt injection in HTTP headers: what 217M web responses show [7d]
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- Using AI to reverse engineer hardware [7d]
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- They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went worse than you think [7d]
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- Show HN: MirrorMD – An AI second opinion from a facial cosmetic surgeon [7d]
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- I know why Mathematicians weep [7d]
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- The cryptoint library (2025) [pdf] [7d]
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- Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design [7d]
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- GridSnap – an open-source Divvy-style window snapper for macOS [7d]
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- Intuitive concurrent programming in any language [7d]
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- C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions [7d]
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- Hiring in tech is mostly bullshit [7d]
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- Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero-click' spyware [7d]
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- Faster command recall with substring search [7d]
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- Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support [7d]
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- X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms [7d]
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- A History of Curves and Surfaces in Computer Aided Geometric Design [pdf] [8d]
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- Steam can now show game achievements in separate ‘sets’ [7d]
- ChatGPT can peek at your Chrome tabs now [7d]
- Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 remaster from sale following disastrous launch [7d]
- The tech backlash is now in theaters [7d]
- Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration work [7d]
- Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social [7d]
- Withings now charges $100 per year to sync your data to other apps [7d]
- Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on Macs [7d]
- Sony made a $5,900 gold-plated Walkman MP3 player [7d]
- Volvo will use Nvidia’s tech for hands-free, point-to-point driving [7d]
- Alienware’s latest 34-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor is $50 off [7d]
- Google is making inline links more prominent in AI responses [7d]
- Sony’s WH-1000XM6 headphones are $130 off today only [7d]
- Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents [7d]
- E Ink upgraded the screen found in most color e-readers [7d]
- The best reason to care about Nvidia’s RTX Spark: ‘everything’ will run on Arm [7d]
- Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta gave Trump a combined $92 million for his ballroom [7d]
- Shelly’s new presence sensor simultaneously detects up to ten people without a camera [7d]
- Microsoft’s new Photos app combines your PC, OneDrive, and iCloud galleries [7d]
- Trump calls off livestream of execution [7d]
- How Windows is being optimized for Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops [7d]
- An Israeli firm is sending spyware through online ads, researchers say [7d]
- Prep your cart before iPhone Duo preorders open tomorrow [7d]
- Nobody is safe from celebrity AI deepfakes [7d]
- Benn Jordan on Flock, privacy, and the new surveillance backlash [7d]
- Some great games to play before GTA VI and Zelda launch [7d]
- Microsoft says Windows 11 is now ‘more responsive’ and runs better on 8GB of RAM [7d]
- GTA VI’s new trailer gives you one more look at Vice City [7d]
- Quick question: Who exactly is iPhone Handoff for? [7d]
- Google launches its ‘universal’ online shopping cart ahead of the holidays [7d]
- Amazon’s always-listening Bee wearable can now help you buy stuff [8d]
- Ledger’s new hardware wallet is an Android phone without the phone [8d]
- Two US officials and a Western official say the order to limit Ukraine's access to SpaceX's Starshield came from inside the White House (Reuters) [7d]
- Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria is leaving the company and will be replaced by former Disney and Fox executive Peter Rice, who starts October 26 (Rebecca Rubin/Variety) [7d]
- Bluesky expands Attie, its AI tool for building custom feeds, with a "social vibe coding" feature to create sites, games, quizzes, and more on the AT Protocol (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [7d]
- Sources: some Anthropic investors discussed a ~$1.5T valuation for its IPO, down from ~$2T they had expected, after disclosures showed slowing Q3 revenue growth (Reuters) [7d]
- Experts say Meta's new terms of use will allow scraping of websites, including news sites, "associated with" business accounts on its platforms, with no opt out (Nieman Lab) [7d]
- Thoma Bravo-owned cybersecurity company Proofpoint plans to buy data security firm Varonis Systems in an all-cash deal valued at about $6.3B (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters) [7d]
- A US official says Trump didn't order any limitations on Ukraine's access to SpaceX's Starshield; Elon Musk said any limits are ultimately decided by POTUS (Kate Sullivan/Bloomberg) [7d]
- A researcher says modern neural networks are far more interpretable than believed, with most neurons understandable in models up to trillions of parameters (Nick Cammarata/Goodfire) [7d]
- Perplexity open sources SPACE, its AI agent sandbox, and says partners including CoreWeave, Akamai, and Crusoe agreed to offer SPACE to customers (Reed Albergotti/Semafor) [7d]
- Sources: top DOJ officials halt career prosecutors' Biden-era investigation of Meta over facilitating illegal drug sales and are weighing more lenient options (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law) [7d]
- Google says it has 400+ publications in its News AI pilot, which tests features like overviews; participants include Financial Times, CNN, and The Texas Tribune (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab) [7d]
- Two workers have been killed and another seriously injured at Intel's Kiryat Gat fab in Israel in an explosion resulting from a gas cylinder malfunctioning (CTech) [7d]
- Volvo says it will use Nvidia's Hyperion platform to launch a Level 2++ hands-free, point-to-point automated driving system by 2030 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge) [7d]
- Memo: Accenture has told many employees, some of whom had been spending as much as $1,000 monthly, that it will now only spend $29 a month per person on Claude (Joseph Cox/404 Media) [7d]
- Anthropic says it is giving employee-like access to METR as part of its pledge to partner with evaluators for assessment of its models and safety practices (Anthropic) [7d]
- Sunbound, which makes software for handling billing, insurance claims, and payments for senior living operators, raised a $24M Series A led by TTV Capital (Ryan Lawler/Axios) [7d]
- Alexandr Wang says ex-Apple exec Daniel Gross, now at Meta, helped bring Meta and Apple together: "we're excited for mommy and daddy to be playing nice again" (Ina Fried/Axios) [7d]
- Meta says it worked with Apple to make Muse Spark Open run locally on M5 Ultra Mac Studios, letting users pair two to four Studios to code or do agentic work (CNBC) [7d]
- Meta releases Muse Spark Open, saying it is the most capable US open-weight model, with 816B total and 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context window (Meta AI Research) [7d]
- Sources: Binance.US seeks to raise up to $100M, targeting a ~$1B valuation in the private round, as it aims to expand its US business; WLF is not participating (Bloomberg) [7d]
- E Ink unveils Kaleido 4, its next-gen color e-paper tech, replacing the Kaleido 3 displays currently used by brands including Amazon, Kobo, and PocketBook (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge) [7d]
- Nvidia launches Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B-parameter open model for enterprise agents, and says it outperforms frontier models on specialized benchmarks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) [7d]
- Sony launches three new Android-powered Walkman music players, including the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3 for $5,900, as it targets the audiophile market (Chris Welch/Bloomberg) [7d]
- Documents: Nvidia and Apple each committed $25M, the top contribution amount, to Trump's WH ballroom; Microsoft and Palantir committed $10M, Meta and Amazon $5M (Washington Post) [7d]
- Portland-based Mueon, which says its AI server racks could fit up to 10x more computing capacity, raised $65M led by Maverick Silicon, with Intel participating (Phoebe Liu/The Information) [7d]
- North.cloud, which helps companies watch their cloud, AI and data spend, raised a $60M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital, taking its total funding to $67M (Chris Metinko/Axios) [7d]
- An interview with John Ternus, who says the memory shortage is "a crisis" and "all options should be on the table", and that Tim Cook "has great relationships" (Andrew R. Chow/Time) [7d]
- Q&A with Dwarkesh Patel on his podcast, lessons from history, AGI, the mood in San Francisco, the Hugging Face hack, Chinese AI, pacing the frontier, and more (New York Times) [7d]
- BofA says it hired 1,000 contractors in Q2 to support 3,000 internal staff in patching proprietary and vendor software flaws exposed by AI models like Mythos (Hugh Son/CNBC) [7d]
- Nvidia's RTX Spark Superchip in the Surface Laptop Ultra outperforms Apple's M5 Max MacBook Pro by ~25% in agentic AI completion benchmarks using Qwen models (Jeffrey Kampman/Tom's Hardware) [7d]
- Ledger unveils Atom, an $899 data-only Android-based smartphone companion device launching in summer 2027, as it pauses some sales following hardware tampering (Dominic Preston/The Verge) [7d]
- Amazon launches two AI wearables, the $75 Bee Frontier wristband and $100 Bee Eclipse magnetic phone-attachment recorder, with a $12/month Bee Pro subscription (Bloomberg) [8d]
- Sources: OpenAI executives have warned staff over potential espionage like honey pots and insider threats and told them to adopt operational security measures (Wall Street Journal) [8d]
- BYD launches slick Lucid rival in China with over 500-miles of range [7d]
- Microsoft boasts that Windows 11 now runs much faster and more responsively [7d]
- US Navy could see first VTOL X-BAT UAV 'by end of this month' as external funding reaches $200 million — Shield AI's fighter-sized drone can fly 2000 nautical miles, reach 50,000 feet [7d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Friday, October 16 (game #1726) [7d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, October 16 (game #957) [7d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, October 16 (game #1223) [7d]
- A piece of the world's oddest network deployment has gone up for auction — if you fancy owning a piece of pigeon-powered internet, it can be yours for just $4,000 [7d]
- The Kindle Paperwhite has been refreshed for 2026 — is it still a good buy? [7d]
- Jura launches the C9 bean-to-cup machine with a mild, ready-to-drink 60C mode [7d]
- USAF will upgrade F-16s ' computers to keep venerable Falcon fighters flying until the 2040s — popular 4th generation aircraft will have flown almost seven decades by the time they retire [7d]
- Holafly Ultra is its 'world first' all-in-one eSIM plan — giving not just unlimited data, but also global health, wellbeing, and travel support to give you peace of mind when travelling [7d]
- How to watch Friends Sex and Games online – stream the German romantic drama from anywhere with a free trial [7d]
- Experts uncover bizarre new malware that spooks users with jump scares and screams [7d]
- Apple iPhone Duo pre-orders start tomorrow — here are 4 things you should do to get ready right now [7d]
- 15 spooky but cute IKEA finds I'd use to give my home a creepy Halloween makeover [7d]
- Tech giants warn Europe ditching their cloud services could cost billions — but then they would say that [7d]
- How to watch The Celebrity Traitors 2026 – Stream episode for free 5 from anywhere [7d]
- 007 First Light is finally coming to Nintendo Switch 2 next year — 'The development team will use the coming months to continue refining the game's optimisation' [7d]
- Missing Microsoft Publisher? LibreOffice is here to save the day [7d]
- Airbnb adds AI search and more services to help you plan your next getaway [7d]
- YouTube Music and Deezer reveal plans to stem tidal wave of AI music [7d]
- Bank of America had to hire 1,000 contractors to patch software flaws spotted by Anthropic Mythos [7d]
- Shark's latest and greatest 4.5-star-rated vacuum with an auto-empty dock just got a mega £200 discount on Amazon [7d]
- Amazon's Bee AI assistant is now a wearable listening device [7d]
- Philips Hue lights just got a big Matter upgrade in Google Home [7d]
- Ugreen NASync IDX6011 Pro NAS review [7d]
- How to watch KATSEYE: Wild Hearts online from anywhere – stream the popumentary from anywhere [7d]
- Windows has fixed an issue with 'Always on VPN' in its latest update — but it seems to have brought more issues with it [7d]
- How to watch The Traitors Telugu online – stream Teja Sajja TV show from anywhere [7d]
- 'What appears to be a simple scam message is often the visible end of a much larger transnational cybercriminal operation': Microsoft leads global takedown of phishing network which sent over a billion messages [7d]
- Netgear’s Orbi 770 is our top Wi-Fi 7 mesh router for large homes and WFH offices — and it's cheaper at Amazon right now than anywhere else [7d]
- 'Close to perfect': Creality’s K1 Max is $350 off in the Halloween sale, just in time to print life-size props and masks [7d]
- Private Internet Access adds 10 new server locations to its network – but it seems the truth is better than PIA lets on [7d]
- This 16TB Seagate IronWolf NAS hard drive is now 15% cheaper [7d]
- 'It feels like somebody’s wading through your dirty washing' — Rockstar says GTA 6 leaks in 2022 felt 'weirdly invasive' and was 'hard to deal with on an emotional level' [7d]
- LinkedIn will now let you charge to share your expertise — and build stronger business relationships [7d]
- Researchers warn ChatGPT for Teens poses serious risks [7d]
- Take our personality quiz and find out what version of Windows you are [7d]
- Why Wildlife Photographer of the Year winner used an infrared converted Nikon camera [7d]
- Grand Theft Auto 6's launch trailer is here, giving fans a deeper look at Jason and Lucia's crime-fueled story [7d]
- The next evolution of observability starts with telemetry [7d]
- These are the AI fakes you need to warn your friends and family about [7d]
- AI has a $2.5 trillion problem and replacing 250 million jobs is the only way to solve it [7d]
- Marshall Bromley 150 review: a party in a cube [7d]
- Hisense U7 review: Good but not great except for the price [7d]
- VPN Deal of the Week: Private Internet Access's Halloween Sale has landed – 26 months of protection for under $50 [7d]
- United Airlines has a new tool to check if your flight has Starlink Wi-Fi — and it’s about time [8d]
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- Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Oct. 16, #753 [7d]
- World Timekeepers Decide to Kill the Leap Second [7d]
- New Amazon Bee Personal AI Devices Will Listen and Record You [7d]
- New Amazon Bee Personal AI Devices Will Listen and Record You [7d]
- Supreme Court Weighs Major Video Privacy Case [7d]
- Our Favorite Air Purifier Brand Just Released a Smaller, More Affordable Option [7d]
- Google Rolls Out Its Universal Cart Shopping Tool [7d]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Friday, Oct. 16, #1223 [7d]
- Today’s NYT Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Friday, Oct. 16, #1945 [7d]
- Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Spangram and Answers for Friday, Oct. 16, #957 [7d]
- Should You Buy a Frigidaire Refrigerator at Best Buy? What to Consider [7d]
- What Can a Roborock Robot Vacuum and Mop Do? 5 Common Scenarios, Plus Models to Shop [7d]
- Dell Is Back With Another MacBook Neo Challenger: I Tested the New Dell 14S Laptop [7d]
- Grand Theft Auto 6: The Release Trailer You’ve Been Waiting For [7d]
- Now Is the Time to Snag a New Google Chromebook. Save Up to $230 at Best Buy [7d]
- This Philips Espresso Machine Grinds, Tamps and Brews, and It’s Almost Half Off Right Now [7d]
- This Handheld Nerve Stimulator Can Help You Relax in Just 2 Minutes — and It’s $50 Off [7d]
- I’ve Tested Echo Shows and Nest Hubs. Here’s How Apple’s HomeView Display Stacks Up [7d]
- Amazon Deals of the Day: Scoop Up the Savings With $50 Off the Fan Favorite Ninja Creami [7d]
- Walmart Deals of the Day: $120 Off the AirPods Max 2 Is a Bargain You Won’t Want to Miss [7d]
- Can the Shark Tank Water Bottle Really Keep Drinks Cold for 36 Hours? I Tested One to Find Out [7d]
- Europe’s Largest Airline Wants Predictive AI Models to Nip Airport Meltdowns in the Bud [7d]
- Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 Review: I Loooove the Screen on This Windows Gaming Handheld [7d]
- Popular Norwegian Kitchen Brand Lands in the US with 7 Sleek Small Appliances [7d]
- Xreal’s New High-End Display Glasses Get a Brightness Boost [7d]
- The $2,000 Duo: Who Is Apple’s First Folding iPhone Actually For? [8d]
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